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U.S. consumers are estimated to have purchased more than 1 billion devices in 2015 with over 3.8 billion devices in use or storied in households. Every year, new electronic cycles increase, leaving both a large amount of consumer electronics needing to be recycled and an exciting opportunity to enable electronic material reuse and materials recovery. Reuse, ...

This handbook has been developed to facilitate Member State reporting in a common format while ensuring that the reporting requirements of the END are met, among other voluntary information that could be facilitated. It addresses the reporting obligations set out in the END and provides reporting templates for MS to utilise, directly downloadable from Reportnet. This handbook has been prepared by ...

The July 20, 2015, Federal Registerincludes a notice for direct final action to amend the electronic reporting regulations for Section 5 under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) action goes into ...

In close cooperation with the Institute for Sustainable Commodities (ISCOM) research has been doneon sustainable electronic procurement in the so-called City Triangle in eastern part of the Netherlands(WGR Regio Stedendriehoek). The City Triangle consists of the municipalities Apeldoorn, Brummen,Deventer, Epe, Lochem, Voorst and Zutphen. The research was based on policy documents ...

Challenges exist in comparing foodborne disease outbreaks (FBDOs) across states due to important differences in reporting practices and investigations. Variables such as FBDO size, population size, number of tourists, and suspected etiology are important to consider when interpreting FBDO data. Analysis of eFORS data can be valuable in improving state FBDO investigations. From 2000 to 2005, ...

Frequently cited statistics indicate that the burden of foodborne disease is a serious public health problem, particularly for vulnerable populations such as children. The purpose of the descriptive retrospective study discussed in this article was to analyze data collected within the Electronic Foodborne Outbreak Reporting System (eFORS) in school settings in order to examine the magnitude of ...

Shredder residues produced in plants processing waste electric and electronic equipment are excluded from material recycling due to a variety of polymeric materials and the presence of brominated flame retardants (BFR), which might contain banned polybrominated diphenyl ethers or toxic polybrominated dioxins and furans (PBDD/F). Herein we present a technological approach to transfer a significant ...

Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) has been a world-class energy producer for decades – and now it is aggressively expanding its operations. In 2012, ADCO produced 1.4 million bpd and accounted for more than 50% of the United Arab Emirates total oil production. By 2017, the company plans to boost its onshore crude capacity to 1.8 million bpd, a substantial 28% increase, by ...

Hazardous waste combustion facilities are already familiar with most of the recordkeeping requirements included in 40 CFR 63, Subpart EEE due to previous compliance with the Boiler and Industrial Furnace (BIF) rule. The NESHAP, however, requires semi-annual continuous monitoring system (CMS) performance reporting that was not previously required under BIF. These provisions specify numerous items ...

The U.S. EPA’s regulation for reporting of greenhouse gases (GHG), or the Mandatory GHG Reporting Rule (40 CFR part 98), has undergone many changes since it was initially published on October 30, 2009. Key changes include the following: A number of new subparts were finalized covering many additional industrial sectors such as natural gas and petroleum systems, electronics manufacturing, ...

Green supply chain management has emerged as a proactive approach for improving environmental performance of processes and products in accordance with the requirements of environmental regulations. Various approaches for implementing green supply chain management practices has been proposed and recognized in previous literatures, yet no investigation has identified the reliability and validity of ...

This paper focuses on the opportunities for using electronic noses for odour exposure assessment purposes, especially in cases where dispersion modelling is not applicable. Such cases include, for instance, those sources where a detailed characterisation and quantification of the odour emissions for every hour of the simulation time domain is particularly difficult, due to the nature of the ...

Across the world, there is growing recognition that the prevailing model of economic growth, grounded in ever-increasing resource use and pollutant emissions, cannot be sustained indefinitely. In the coming decades, with global population expected to increase to 9 billion people from 7.6 billion today, continued improvements in living standards and well-being will depend on a transition to a ...

Introduction Pollution Prevention Guidelines to provide technical advice and guidance to staff and consultants involved in pollution-related projects. The guidelines represent state-of-the-art thinking on how to reduce pollution emissions from the production process. In many cases, the guidelines provide numerical targets for reducing pollution, as well as maximum emissions levels that are ...

Recent EU Directives on waste electronic goods and hazardous substances are leading to tensions with developing countries which export equipment. The global electronics supply chain is now forming an important testing ground for a new initiative on sustainable trade and innovation aimed at overcoming accusations of environmental protectionism. The initiative encapsulates some of the conflicts ...

When disposing of digital data media, it is advisable to take care, as untold amounts of confidential data are stored on our computers, USB sticks, CDs and DVDs etc. and represent a security risk, above all for trading companies. But what happens to these storage media at the end of their life? The Federal Office for Data Security makes an unequivocal recommendation that the rule for hard disks ...

A number of EU legal instruments require EU Member States to monitor and report air quality data. This information is collated, analysed and disseminated by the European Environment Agency (EEA). At present much of the data is reported electronically by countries in data flows required under a specific legal instrument. As a result, reporting on air quality is not always integrated across all ...

Situation and ObjectiveIn regard to collecting, managing, and reporting material declaration compliance information, this is a case study of The GoodBye Chain Group’s work with a large Electronics Manufacturing Services Company (EMS). EMS was faced with demands from one of its largest customers to provide full disclosure material declaration information by July 1, 2006. EMS started working ...

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